Website: https://www.moniquezjphotography.com/
Apparently the floodgates have opened?
It’s been a while since I’ve had a photographer bold enough to put their watermark on stolen photos. I honestly am unsure if any of the images on her website are hers, I just couldn’t find sources for all of them.
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Website: https://www.farissphotography.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fariss.photography
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fariss.photography
While Bonfauxtage may have been the first I knew she wouldn’t be the last photographer to steal a photo and replace the subject with another one and repost as their own image. I believe Fariss Photography may have used Photoshop or something like it instead of AI but the end result is the same, an image that is a derivative work of someone else’s copyrighted image that hasn’t been changed substantially enough to be considered new. I have confirmed that Fariss was not alongside these photographers.
Fariss Photography is also yet another high-end photographer so I gotta ask, you all OK in that market? Is it too much to ask you use your own imagery on your website?
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/memoriesbymadison
This photographer has a decent following – I’m told she has gone viral a few times for her stranger sessions she does fairly often.
She’s done so many mini sessions she has her own images of many of these setups but keeps using stolen images.
Why is this a problem even if she says “not my photos” or “inspo” on the ads?
First off, the clients rarely read everything in front of them. Case in point are these comments complimenting Madison on her work in one of the ads with stolen images.
Second, Madison is getting the Google credit as the original source for these images!
One of the sets of images she stole for a “Notebook” themed mini session comes back to her as the original source, not the actual content creator!!!
When someone searches for that image OR anything that image is associated with (i.e. Notebook Inspired Mini Session Near Me) Madison will get that Google boost, not the OP even though the OP has more shares of their post, likely because Madison has more followers so Google is assuming that means she’s the original content creator.
This isn’t new, this has been an ongoing issue for years, I’m just highlighting it today because I’m getting annoyed (and it’s Monday).
P.S. What is it with these photographers that use stolen images for ads and having pay what you can sessions?
P.P.S. Allegedly Madison has been called out before and did a clean up of her page and there used to be more posted that wasn’t hers.
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Website: https://carlyfowlerphotography.mypixieset.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlyfowlerphotography/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlyfowlerphotography/
USession: https://book.usesession.com/i/GO1IwjbPT
I don’t know how many times I’ll have to scream this but for the love of pickles IF YOU DID NOT CAPTURE THAT IMAGE YOU CAN NOT USE IT FOR ADS, MOOD BOARDS, INSPO ETC. ON YOUR BUSINESS PAGE PROMOTING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
In searching this person out I also found SO MANY other photographers using some of these images. So… there may be a bonanza soon on this page.
I stopped sourcing because I have a meeting but I’m sure there’s more. I’ll dig in if needed later.
Updated 5:30EST:
Pinterest is for inspiration to be LEFT ON PINTEREST. It isn’t an image vault for you to use any image you find to plop on your Facebook/Instagram/USession page to advertise with.
I am amused she removed *most* of the Pinterest photos but still has one left I didn’t call out that I didn’t find the first go around. I added it below.
Update @ 6:30PM EST
Yo, Carly, sweet cheeks.
*I* made the blog post. Don’t come after the people you stole from.
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Continue reading Carly Fowler in Richmond, VATikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@micahcookphotos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micahcookphotos/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MicahCookPhotos
Website: https://www.micahcookphotography.com/
SIGH.
Apparently this has to be said.
YOU CANNOT SCRAPE PHOTOS FROM THE INTERNET AND PUT THEM ON YOUR TIKTOK AND USE IT TO PROMOTE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS!!!!!
Sometimes this “high end wedding photographer” says not my photos in the caption or video but not always and it’s usually below the “more'” link and buried with the hashtags. If you weren’t digging you’d likely assume that these images are his.
Very, very, very few of these TikToks have his photos BUT his Instagram POSTS do appear to be his own work (the reels are mostly reposted TikToks which have stolen images in them).
The vast majority of the images stolen he’s using to promote himself and say basically, “hey if this is your vision of a wedding hire me!” with various high end photos of weddings from around the world. According to this video, this method seems to have worked…
I finally gave up because it was overwhelming how many stolen images he’s using on his TikTok to promote his business but below you’ll get a sample of how many images he’s used that aren’t his while saying “if any of these fit your preferences… I’m taking on 10 more weddings for the 2024 year”
Updated 7/27/2023:
